--- title: "Castro Valley Baby Shares Birthday With Both Parents | Sutter Health" description: "A Castro Valley couple welcomes their first child at Sutter's Eden Medical Center Birth Center, discovering baby Zaid shares a birthday with both mom and dad." url: "https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/patient-stories/castro-valley-couple-welcomes-baby-with-same-birthday-as-mom-dad" --- 1. [Home](https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/) / 2. [Patient stories](https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/patient-stories) / 3. Castro Valley Couple Welcomes Baby With Same Birthday As Mom Dad # Date With Destiny: Mom, Dad & Baby Share Same Birthday A Castro Valley couple welcomes their first child at Sutter's Eden Medical Center Birth Center, discovering baby Zaid shares a birthday with both mom and dad. June 24, 2021 by Cat Valles ![Date With Destiny: Mom, Dad & Baby Share Same Birthday](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/sutterhealt962c-sutterhealt8fce-production57cc-4860/media/Project/SutterHealth/Vitals/patient-stories/IMG_0356-min-scaled-acf24685.jpg?h=2199&iar=0&w=2560 "Date With Destiny: Mom, Dad & Baby Share Same Birthday") _**Castro Valley, Calif. couple welcomes baby with their same birth date.**_  Well, this certainly makes planning a birthday much easier. Sutter’s [Eden Medical Center Birth Center](https://www.sutterhealth.org/find-location/facility/eden-medical-center-birth-center) delivered a special birthday present to Castro Valley, Calif., residents Laila Mossadak and her husband, Akbar Moinuddin—a healthy baby boy named Zaid. Zaid, the couple’s first child, was born at 2:21 a.m. on June 17—joining Mom and Dad just in time for their joint birthday. That’s right. This family of three shares the same birthday. As Tina Simmons, Birth Center director, explains it, “When the nurse went to round on the patient, the family said, ‘We all have the same birthday!’ It doesn’t happen every day that three people in the same family share the same birthday!” > Moinuddin joked that they didn’t plan it nine months prior—the timing was just a happy coincidence. “My wife was due to deliver on June 16, but she went into labor on the 16th, and he was born on the 17th,” Moinuddin said. The couple have plenty of family to celebrate the happy news. Mossadak’s mom lives with them and Moinuddin’s parents live just down the road in Fremont, Calif. They also have family across the U.S. and in the U.K. “It’s been an interesting detail on top of a happy occasion,” Moinuddin says of the timing. Now that COVID-19 restrictions have lifted, the couple held a celebration with their families. Moinuddin adds they thought about doing three cakes to mark the occasion but decided that would be a little too much, “So we just did one big cake.” Happy birthday to the proud parents and newest addition, Zaid. ## Topics [Labor and delivery](https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/search?facets=%5B%7B%22i%22%3A%22c_healthTopics.name%22%2C%22v%22%3A%5B%22Labor+and+delivery%22%5D%7D%5D&verticalKey=articles)[Hospital/Birthing Center](https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/search?facets=%5B%7B%22i%22%3A%22c_healthTopics.name%22%2C%22v%22%3A%5B%22Hospital%2FBirthing+Center%22%5D%7D%5D&verticalKey=articles) ## Pregnancy and childbirth Bringing new life into the world is a meaningful milestone for your family. If you're expecting a baby, our obstetrics team can provide expert prenatal care, delivery support and a reassuring experience through birth. 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